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Am 22.01.2013 19:43, schrieb Bruce Hill: |
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 06:53:15PM +0100, Silvio Siefke wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> i want ask some questions for the Kernel. |
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>> How do I find dependencies of each option? |
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In menuconfig, when you open the help on an item, there is a line |
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"Depends on". If the requirement is not met, the option is not visible |
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but can be found by searching (press /). |
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There might also be a line "Selects" which contains automatically |
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activated dependencies and "Selected by" which contains the reverse |
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dependencies. |
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>> Are there patches for older computers? |
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Don't think so. If there is a regression, it should get fixed in the |
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main line kernel. |
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>> I use the good old Pentium 4 on the desktop and an atom on the laptop. |
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>> But I have often the problem when the computer has much to do, that the |
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>> system freeze. |
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What kind of workload do we talk about? Properly "niced" and "ioniced" |
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compile jobs? Is the freeze temporary? |
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>> That's on the atom often so. The opera is my favorite |
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>> Browser, but often the call on a website and the result end in freeze. |
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Odd. Maybe GPU related? Again, does the system recover? |
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>> What is really strange, when i run emerge --sync ; emerge -avuDN @world, |
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>> the Pentium 4 is faster as the Atom. Is that normal? |
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Doesn't surprise me. P4 and Atom are both horrible micro architectures. |
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But Atom is also horribly stripped down and has a lower clock frequency. |
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>> It were nice some can share the own expirence. The Kernel is so hard to |
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>> understand, when take off a option, other option run not. I really not |
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>> know what i need and what need. |
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> Please read "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell". You can: |
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> "emerge -av app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell" |
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> and also read it online: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ |
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+1 |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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